1762.   Vicente Escobar Flores is born in Havana.

He was a notable painter who cultivated, above all, the portrait genre and enjoyed a solid reputation in his time. Son of a well-to-do black family, belonging to the brotherhoods of pardos and free browns, his work was developed between the two centuries, for that reason it is possible to appreciate characteristics of the painting of the XVIII century, particularly in the religious subject, whereas the portraits are more casual, especially, for the poses and attitudes of the bourgeois class that he represented. Within his production, female characters enjoy a special place. The collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba preserves several of his canvases of appreciable workmanship.

He died in Havana victim of the cholera epidemic on April 8, 1834.

1919. Gonzalo Asencio Hernandez is born in Havana.

Known by the nickname of Uncle Tom, he began as a composer when he was only fifteen years old. He lived from rumba to rumba, because in addition to partying he could make a living. His voice, his drumheads and his creative talent toured the lots of Havana. He mastered the different facets of the good rumbero: the singer, the dancer and playing the quinto. He knew how to imprint his melodies with an unmistakable and inimitable flavor, and his prodigious sense of rhythm allowed him to guide singers of this music that is so difficult to perform and yet so contagious. His production was abundant and very varied in its subject matter and atmosphere, in which the theme of cubanía was particularly present.

He died on February 10, 1991.